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Scotland Loves Anime 2012: Animation Looks East
Preview Following a very successful run in 2011, animation festival Scotland Loves Anime returns to Glasgow and Edinburgh in October for a third year, with ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Dark Skies
If Dark Skies’ opening credits didn’t tell you it was produced by the people who brought you the Paranormal Activity franchise and Insidious... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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GFF 2013: Stoker
Stoker marks the English language debut of contemporary South Korean cinema poster child Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst), and the film is full of the strikin... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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GFF 2013: The Kids are All Right
Taking place in the 11 days preceding the main event, Glasgow Youth Film Festival is an increasingly formidable entity in its own right, and this year’... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Gimme the Loot
In Adam Leon’s debut feature, two teenaged graffiti artists, Malcolm (Hickson) and Sofia (Washington), attempt to leave their mark on an iconic monumen... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Robot Rock: Kenji Kamiyama on 009 Re: Cyborg
Since 2009, October’s Scotland Loves Anime festival has been a yearly highlight for the country’s animation fans, hosting various UK and European... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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American Hustle
American Hustle is based on the Abscam sting operation of the late 70s and early 80s, but David O. Russell’s loose ensemble piece is more giddily ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Though still brimming with some narrative bloat, the second Hobbit feature is overall a considerable improvement on its meandering, tonally scattered predece... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Raid 2
Gareth Evans’ The Raid took place over one day in a single locale; its narrative had an economy akin to old-school John Carpenter. For the sequel,... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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This Sporting Life: Sports Stories from Around the African Commonwealth
With so many other cultural outlets curating events to tie in with the upcoming Commonwealth Games, it’s little surprise to see a film festival taking ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross is made up of 14 segments, each filmed in a single long and often static take, where meticulous compositions and dry performances drive... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Camille Claudel 1915
The contemporary king of grim French cinema, director Bruno Dumont’s latest, the stark Camille Claudel 1915, is based on personal letters and medical r... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Grand Central
Nuclear radiation provides the unusual backdrop for a love affair in Grand Central. Tahar Rahim plays Gary, a man with an unclear criminal background who beg... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Horns
An adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel of the same name, Horns is a fantasy fable that works well for scattered stretches of its very bloated runtime, but i... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Big Eyes
With Big Eyes, Tim Burton takes a break from his spate of auto-pilot adaptations (be it butchering Alice in Wonderland or remaking his own early short f... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
What began with An Unexpected Journey ends in an altogether expected fashion, as Peter Jackson wraps up his frequently misguided three-part adaptation o... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Life in a Fishbowl
Icelandic ensemble drama Life in a Fishbowl follows three wildly different people, whose lives (and double lives) intersect in strange ways, exploring the ro... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Uzumasa Limelight
Uzumasa Limelight is a heartfelt tribute to the samurai-saturated chanbara films of Japanese cinema, particularly the largely unsung, intensely physical pros... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Cat People
Made between his milestones American Gigolo and Mishima, Paul Schrader’s Cat People is a blend of the more commercially minded concerns of the former a... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Dear White People
Arriving on UK shores 18 months after its Sundance debut, US comedy Dear White People is all too relevant in light of the increasingly publicised troubles of... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Closed Curtain
Jafar Panahi’s semi-documentary This Is Not a Film visualised and articulated his plight after a draconian sentence from the Iranian government (regard... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Love & Friendship
In a perfect marriage of artists, Love & Friendship sees Jane Austen's early novella Lady Susan adapted by writer-director Whit Stillman. The result is h... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Deadpool
Despite a lot of its meta gags falling flat, giddy lead Ryan Reynolds makes Deadpool's immature fuckery work Sometimes the right actor can single-handedly s... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Captain America: Civil War
It's Captain America v Iron-Man in this Marvel clash of The Avengers. The good news is that Captain America: Civil War has great action set-pieces and a deli... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Swiss Army Man
From the directing duo behind the unforgettable music video for Turn Down for What comes Swiss Army Man, the most philosophically profound movie featuri... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
There's one reason to watch Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. And her name is Cobie Smulders Excluding the five film-strong Mission: Impossible franchise that ha... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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All This Panic
The closing credits of documentary All This Panic commence with “A Film by Jenny Gage and Thomas Betterton,” an unusual credit in that Betterton ... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Eliza Hittman explores male sexuality in Beach Rats
“I’m not aspiring to explain the psychology of the character to the audience,” says Eliza Hittman of her style as writer-director. “T... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Five great British road movies
More than most genres, the road movie would seem to offer an easy route (sorry) for budding screenwriters. Though the individual style of a given film will d... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Graduation
Teen Eliza (Maria-Victoria Dragus) has been raised by her physician father Romeo (Adrian Titieni) with the idea she will one day leave their Transylvanian to... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago